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Can you (or someone) clarify the difference between Patchwork and SSB? Does SSB handle the networking and discovery and encryption and whatnot, and Patchwork j

by mundo 10y ago

Can you (or someone) clarify the difference between Patchwork and SSB? Does SSB handle the networking and discovery and encryption and whatnot, and Patchwork just acts as front-end for displaying diaries, connecting to pubs, posting and so forth?

AljoschaMeyer 10y ago
Patchwork is a user interface for displaying messages from the distributed database to the user, and to allow the user to add new messages. The underlying protocol supports arbitrary message types, patchwork exposes a UI for interacting with a subset of them. Anyone could write and use other UIs while still contributing to the same database. Patchbay[1] for example is a more developer-centric frontend. Under the hood, patchwork connects to a scuttlebot[2] server. Scuttlebot in turn is based on secure-scuttlebutt (ssb). [1] https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay [2] http://scuttlebot.io/ http://scuttlebot.io/
password_reset 10y ago
correct, patchwork is the UI, ssb is the database.
pfraze 10y ago
The downvotes on replies are baffling over here. Here's what AljoschaMeyer said, and it's all accurate: Patchwork is a user interface for displaying messages from the distributed database to the user, and to allow the user to add new messages. The underlying protocol supports arbitrary message types, patchwork exposes a UI for interacting with a subset of them. Anyone could write and use other UIs while still contributing to the same database. Patchbay[1] for example is a more developer-centric frontend. Under the hood, patchwork connects to a scuttlebot[2] server. Scuttlebot in turn is based on secure-scuttlebutt (ssb). [1] https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay [2] http://scuttlebot.io/ http://scuttlebot.io/
- mundo 10y ago
  Thank you, I enabled [dead] and I too am baffled at why useful responses are getting killed. edit- they got unkilled.

by mundo 10y ago

AljoschaMeyer 10y ago

Patchwork is a user interface for displaying messages from the distributed database to the user, and to allow the user to add new messages. The underlying protocol supports arbitrary message types, patchwork exposes a UI for interacting with a subset of them. Anyone could write and use other UIs while still contributing to the same database. Patchbay[1] for example is a more developer-centric frontend. Under the hood, patchwork connects to a scuttlebot[2] server. Scuttlebot in turn is based on secure-scuttlebutt (ssb). [1] https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay [2] http://scuttlebot.io/ http://scuttlebot.io/

password_reset 10y ago

correct, patchwork is the UI, ssb is the database.

pfraze 10y ago

The downvotes on replies are baffling over here. Here's what AljoschaMeyer said, and it's all accurate: Patchwork is a user interface for displaying messages from the distributed database to the user, and to allow the user to add new messages. The underlying protocol supports arbitrary message types, patchwork exposes a UI for interacting with a subset of them. Anyone could write and use other UIs while still contributing to the same database. Patchbay[1] for example is a more developer-centric frontend. Under the hood, patchwork connects to a scuttlebot[2] server. Scuttlebot in turn is based on secure-scuttlebutt (ssb). [1] https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay [2] http://scuttlebot.io/ http://scuttlebot.io/

mundo 10y ago
Thank you, I enabled [dead] and I too am baffled at why useful responses are getting killed. edit- they got unkilled.